Oh Wow and Dno

Eli's vocabulary is slowly starting to expand. Lately the words that dominate his speech are"Oh wow" and "Dno." The last is "no" but for some reason whenever he says it it sounds like he has a "d" on the front of it. Cute, nonetheless. It's even funnier since he turns his head upward and away when saying it. I'm working on getting it recorded. But the "oh wow" has to be my favorite. Everything is so amazing to little eyes and is perceived with marvel. Even ordinary crumbs in the floorboard of the car or a very plain and un-special looking rock. But some things we discover really are wow worthy.

During Sunday morning church service Eli sat in GG's lap. He was turned around facing her and placed his hand upon her....well, chest. "OH WOOOOW!" I know that it was totally coincidental since he was really looking at her necklace but I lost it. Only she and I had known the entirety of the situation although everyone thought that his loud exclamation was funny too. Just not as funny as we found it.

Ah, the innocence of babies and the innocent things they say and do.

Just our day...

I just need to say, I love America. Just as much, I love the south. I love how nice people are and how willing to help they are. People in England (at least around where we live) are a lot like people in the southern states. They always willing to lend a hand or comment on the adorableness of your child. During our horrible connecting flight back here you could tell we were NOT in the south. Once on the plane, the only people who even offered to help me lift our carry on into the overhead bin were from guess where... Georgia. And the gentleman was prior mil. I think that says enough.

Today, Eli and I got out and ran some errands for GG and spent some normal "momma-Eli" time together. One of those errands included an oil change at the Toyota place in Oxford. Would you believe that we waited over TWO hours for an OIL CHANGE!!! I felt like we were in England. The Brits rush for nothin'. Praise God the waiting area was full of elderly (the sweet kind) people for Eli to entertain, we had picked up E some Zaxby's for lunch, and I went with my gut and packed the iPad to watch some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and a couple of Hot Wheels.

It's about time I get a handle on this "Mom" thing.

It's only been 16 months....

After that two hour stint in waiting hell (I am not patient) I pressed my luck and ran into Target. Then Old Navy. Then TJ MAXX. I wore my little guy out and he napped all the way back to Cragford. We made it the WHOLE entire day without even a minor meltdown. It must have been that we haven't had a whole lot of time to ourselves like we "normally" do.

Oh, and after Wednesday... we have only *7* more weeks until Mr Andrew makes his grand debut. And do you know what one of the only things I can think about? Getting Eli his "big brother" gift together so he can have it when he gets to the hospital. No, I haven't gotten the baby anything... no coming home outfit, really any clothes at all other than some of Eli's hand-me-downs that will be weather appropriate, diapers...nothing! I honestly can't even remember what all I will even need for a newborn? I do know things I don't need... I have SO many things that we thought would be necessary for a baby that were only opened and placed in the drawer of things that I can't make myself throw away for fear that I may need them some day... I guess once we return home in November I can throw/give them away.

On another subject, did someone turn the heat up?

Catch up...

so everyone told me that once we get back to the states time would fly... and they were right. it seems that we just got here yesterday when in fact it has been 3 weeks. we've gotten a lot accomplished with getting uncle luke graduated, spending memorial day weekend at the beach and a week at the Land grandparent's. we got to see baby andrew in 4d and it's obvious he favors his big brother A LOT!

this past wednesday at my appointment i was asking my doctor about internet access/cell phone service in the delivery rooms and thankfully we will have great service and wifi. i also went out on a limb and asked about possible induction so that daniel would know when we were going to the hospital in case it happened naturally and we were unable to get in touch with him. we will go in a week early (on the 3rd) at midnight and get the show on the road! military doctors would never even consider induction unless it were absolutely necessary!

i'm sure some people think it's selfish or not good for the baby (you can tell by the looks on some people's faces or by the tones in their voices) but, this is pretty much the only thing we have going in our favor right now. this is the only date daniel has on his calendar with something that he can actually enjoy while he's over there. and speaking of daniel, being home without him sucks. it's hard to enjoy some things and when you do enjoy them, you feel guilty.

of course daniel would NEVER make us feel guilty for anything but when i think about the conditions that he's living in or the food that he's eating or the boredom he feels on his time off, you feel about this small. ahh, only about 4 1/2 more months until he's home!

this weekend we are just taking it easy and trying to get on a little bit of a schedule since we've been burning up the roads since we've been home!